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                      2: .NC NEWS
                      3: .NA
                      4: news \- show news
                      5: .SY
                      6: news
                      7: \%[topic\ ...]
                      8: \%[\-check]
                      9: \%[\-display]
                     10: \%[\-update]
                     11: \%[\-review\ [topic]]
                     12: \%[\-send\ topic]
                     13: \%[\-topics]
                     14: \%[\-help]
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: \fINews\fR is an \fIMH\fR program which checks, displays, reviews, 
                     17: or sends news.
                     18: A pseudo-user called `news' acts as an automated
                     19: custodian for news items on various topics.
                     20: These topics are managed as \fIMH\fR folders in the home directory of news.
                     21: Mail sent to `news.everyone', for instance, will get
                     22: filed in the `everyone' news folder.
                     23: 
                     24: You can explicitly select the group of news topics you want
                     25: to check or display by specifying them as arguments to the
                     26: \fInews\fR command.
                     27: If you don't explicitly select topics in this way,
                     28: the topic `everyone' is selected by default.
                     29: Additional default topics can be selected by listing them on a
                     30: \&``News\-Topics:'' line in your MH profile.
                     31: The profile line
                     32: must contain a blank-separated list of topics.
                     33: As a special case, the profile line:
                     34: 
                     35:     \&``News\-Topics:\ *''
                     36: 
                     37: means you want to keep track of all news.
                     38: 
                     39: \&``\fINews \fB\-topics\fR''
                     40: will show you what topics exist and
                     41: the number of messages in each.
                     42: Topics selected are marked with asterisks.
                     43: \&``\fINews \fB\-help\fR''
                     44: is like
                     45: \&``\fInews \fB\-topics\fR''
                     46: except that it also displays the syntax of the
                     47: .I news
                     48: command.
                     49: 
                     50: \&``\fINews \fB\-check\fR''
                     51: will report the existence of unread news in the selected topics.
                     52: .I News
                     53: without any option arguments
                     54: will display all unread news items from
                     55: all selected topics.
                     56: \&``\fINews \fB\-display\fR''
                     57: is identical to
                     58: .I news
                     59: without an argument, but it suppresses the
                     60: no news message (useful in login scripts).
                     61: \&``\fINews \fB\-review\fR [#] [topic]''
                     62: will redisplay the last # (default all) items
                     63: in the selected topics.
                     64: 
                     65: News stores in your MH profile the message number of the most recent news
                     66: item it has shown you in each topic.
                     67: \&``\fINews \fB\-update\fR''
                     68: will update your MH profile to indicate no
                     69: outstanding news items to be read.
                     70: 
                     71: \&``\fINews \fB\-send\fR topic''
                     72: is identical to
                     73: \&``mail news.topic''.
                     74: The mail sent to news.topic is
                     75: automatically filed in a folder with
                     76: name topic.
                     77: 
                     78: Any unrecognized switches to
                     79: .I news
                     80: are sent along to
                     81: .IR l (1)
                     82: for displaying items, or to
                     83: .IR mail (1)
                     84: for sending a news item.
                     85: .Fi
                     86: ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
                     87: ^/usr/news/<topics>~^The news folders
                     88: ^/usr/news/.<topics>~^The number of items in <topics>
                     89: .Pr
                     90: ^News-topics:~^Topics the user is interested in
                     91: .Ps
                     92: ^News-<topic>:~^Current message in news topics
                     93: .Sa
                     94: mh-mail(5), mh(1)
                     95: .De
                     96: `topic' defaults to \*(lqeveryone\*(rq
                     97: .Co
                     98: The current message in each news folder is maintained in the
                     99: user's mh\(ruprofile.
                    100: .En

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